CJI Review: Israel’s History, Pride and Heroes and JME Tanach:
Analyze information about the three cities that record purchases of land in Israel. What are the three cities? What is the significance of this land purchase?
Why did King David and Avraham Avinu insist on paying for the land when it was offered for free?
How does our Biblical connection to the land affect us in modern times?
Netanyahu is addressing Obama and Congress this week : Offer three points Netanyahu could add to his speech regarding the Jewish people’s connection with the Land of Israel from three different time periods.
The timeline. Please study Matthew’s, Liat’s or Hannah Leeba’s timeline. J
Identify psukim from these three parts of Tanach THAT DISCUSS PURCHASING OF LAND IN ISRAEL (avail on Yom Ha'atzmaut link), all the way on the bottom) (be able to match the psukim to the storyline and explain basic concept of the psukim).
Literature:
Compare and contrast כאן נולדתי and אין לי ארץ אחרת – what are the differences of the message, the theme, the fervor behind the songs? What is the same? What is different?
Which song do you think provides a stronger message? Why?
Which lines of the songs are comparable in the theme and message? How?
How does Eyal Golan’s song מי שמאמין לא מפחד echo the ethos of Israel as a Jewish country?
What is admirable in Golan’s choice of lyrics in his superstar status? Why? What do most popular (American or other) superstars sing about?
Discuss the theme and heroism of אלי אלי שלא יגמר לעולם by Hannah Senesh.
Heroes:
What is heroic about the heroes we’ve studied?
What qualities do they show? What do they have in common?
Which of the fallen heroes are most similar? How?
Which of the living heroes (or heroes who died of natural causes like Begin) are similar? How?
What is the stark contrast of the Holocaust to some of our heroes and the legacy they have left, either through literature or through progeny?
Unseen: Compare Eli Cohen and Joseph Trumpledor to the heroes we’ve studied. Joseph Trumpledor said טוב למות בעד ארצינו"אין דבר," – to which heroes do you compare them to and why?
Short bio about Joseph Trumpledor: Trumpledor, together with//Ze'ev Jabotinsky//, developed the idea of the//Jewish Legion//to fight with the British against common enemies. Together they formed the//Zion Mule Corps// in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the//Israel Defense Forces//. He fought in the//Battle of Gallipoli//with the Zion Mule Corps, where he was wounded in the shoulder. He had already lost his left arm while serving in the Russian army in 1902. This did not deter him at all. Upon his return toRussia in 1918, he organised Jews to defend themselves and established theHeHalutz, a youth organization that prepared immigrants foraliyah(immigration to Palestine), and returned to Palestine himself, then under the//British Mandate//. While protecting Tel Hai, a farming village, Arabs attacked and he was stabbed and died en route to a hospital. His last words were אין דבר, טוב למות בעד ארצינו. These words closely resemble a translation ofthe famous line from the//Roman////lyrical////poet////Horace//'sOdes(iii 2.13), which can be rendered in//English//as "It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country," or "It is sweet and fitting to die for the fatherland" --- and which inspired numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist patriots in various countries. The town ofKiryat Shmona("City of Eight") is named after Trumpeldor and the seven others who died defending Tel Hai. There are many memorials dedicated to Trumpledor throughout the country.
Choose one hero we’ve studied: what do you most admire and emulate about him/her? Why?
How has this part of the class increased your appreciation for the citizens of Israel and how? (or not?)
Why do some people create organizations, movies, memorials for their loved ones and others choose to mourn privately?
JME:
How does Halacha affect ME?
Name two JME concepts that shed new light for you. What did you find meaningful in these subjects?
What would be the view without halacha?
What is the view considering halacha?
How does G-d fit into the picture?
Which quotes from the Torah affect this JME topic?
Opinion There will be opinion questions about the different subjects we’ve studied, methodology, technology, assignments, assessments, etc. Please make sure to explain your responses fully.
CJI Review:
Israel’s History, Pride and Heroes and JME
Tanach:
- Analyze information about the three cities that record purchases of land in Israel. What are the three cities? What is the significance of this land purchase?
- Why did King David and Avraham Avinu insist on paying for the land when it was offered for free?
- How does our Biblical connection to the land affect us in modern times?
- Netanyahu is addressing Obama and Congress this week : Offer three points Netanyahu could add to his speech regarding the Jewish people’s connection with the Land of Israel from three different time periods.
- The timeline. Please study Matthew’s, Liat’s or Hannah Leeba’s timeline. J
- Identify psukim from these three parts of Tanach THAT DISCUSS PURCHASING OF LAND IN ISRAEL (avail on Yom Ha'atzmaut link), all the way on the bottom) (be able to match the psukim to the storyline and explain basic concept of the psukim).
Literature:- Compare and contrast כאן נולדתי and אין לי ארץ אחרת – what are the differences of the message, the theme, the fervor behind the songs? What is the same? What is different?
- Which song do you think provides a stronger message? Why?
- Which lines of the songs are comparable in the theme and message? How?
- How does Eyal Golan’s song מי שמאמין לא מפחד echo the ethos of Israel as a Jewish country?
- What is admirable in Golan’s choice of lyrics in his superstar status? Why? What do most popular (American or other) superstars sing about?
- Discuss the theme and heroism of אלי אלי שלא יגמר לעולם by Hannah Senesh.
Heroes:- What is heroic about the heroes we’ve studied?
- What qualities do they show? What do they have in common?
- Which of the fallen heroes are most similar? How?
- Which of the living heroes (or heroes who died of natural causes like Begin) are similar? How?
- What is the stark contrast of the Holocaust to some of our heroes and the legacy they have left, either through literature or through progeny?
- Unseen: Compare Eli Cohen and Joseph Trumpledor to the heroes we’ve studied. Joseph Trumpledor said טוב למות בעד ארצינו"אין דבר," – to which heroes do you compare them to and why?
Short bio about Joseph Trumpledor:Trumpledor, together with//Ze'ev Jabotinsky//, developed the idea of the//Jewish Legion//to fight with the British against common enemies. Together they formed the//Zion Mule Corps// in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the//Israel Defense Forces//. He fought in the//Battle of Gallipoli//with the Zion Mule Corps, where he was wounded in the shoulder. He had already lost his left arm while serving in the Russian army in 1902. This did not deter him at all. Upon his return toRussia in 1918, he organised Jews to defend themselves and established theHeHalutz, a youth organization that prepared immigrants foraliyah(immigration to Palestine), and returned to Palestine himself, then under the//British Mandate//. While protecting Tel Hai, a farming village, Arabs attacked and he was stabbed and died en route to a hospital. His last words were אין דבר, טוב למות בעד ארצינו. These words closely resemble a translation ofthe famous line from the//Roman////lyrical////poet////Horace//'sOdes(iii 2.13), which can be rendered in//English//as "It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country," or "It is sweet and fitting to die for the fatherland" --- and which inspired numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalist patriots in various countries. The town ofKiryat Shmona("City of Eight") is named after Trumpeldor and the seven others who died defending Tel Hai. There are many memorials dedicated to Trumpledor throughout the country.
- Choose one hero we’ve studied: what do you most admire and emulate about him/her? Why?
- How has this part of the class increased your appreciation for the citizens of Israel and how? (or not?)
- Why do some people create organizations, movies, memorials for their loved ones and others choose to mourn privately?
JME:- How does Halacha affect ME?
- Name two JME concepts that shed new light for you. What did you find meaningful in these subjects?
- What would be the view without halacha?
- What is the view considering halacha?
- How does G-d fit into the picture?
- Which quotes from the Torah affect this JME topic?
OpinionThere will be opinion questions about the different subjects we’ve studied, methodology, technology, assignments, assessments, etc. Please make sure to explain your responses fully.